# Did you ever or do you now possess a pogo stick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** toys-models\ **Created:** [October 22, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919 "2023-10-22T12:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/41 "2023-10-24T19:47:13Z")
The thread title says “possess” rather than “own”, and while I was on jury duty a few weeks ago I learned that to legally possess something it doesn’t have to belong to you, you just have to have control of it for a period of time. I never had my own pogo stick, but in middle school I got to use one during P.E. class sometimes. So based on the legal definition I did possess one. 1. I thought it was fun. In fact it was one of my favorite things to do during P.E. 2. Wasn’t up to me, but if it was I would have liked to have had more P.E. time for pogo sticking. 3. I got the hang of it pretty quickly. I was never able to do any amazing tricks, but I could bounce around for a fairly long time without falling. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/42 "2023-10-24T23:08:08Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > And a unicycle. All the kids in our neighborhood had them - a gang! ha ha What are you rebelling against, Johnny? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/43 "2023-10-24T23:16:56Z")
Just did a quick google search. Lots of choices for pogo sticks these days. Mine was one of the cheaper ones with an internal spring. I always thought the one my friend had with the external/visible spring was better for some reason. Turns out there is something called [Xpogo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Pogo) now. Maybe they’ll make it an Olympic sport someday. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/44 "2023-10-25T00:23:16Z")
I don’t believe I have ever seen one out in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/45 "2023-10-25T01:15:43Z")
1. Yes I did have one. It was enervating, which I guess is fun in a way. I **was** disappointed that it didn’t go boing boing, like in cartoons. 2. I pogoed every evening before or after supper. I don’t recall what my record was, but it was over a thousand boings. 3. Very good indeed. I could pogo ‘no hands’. But I only did it in the cellar, on cement. You really can’t bounce effectively on anything but a very hard surface, which means pogoing down the street is not always possible, anyway you look like a dork. 4. There’s nothing amazing about riding a pogo stick. You just do it, then when you grow up and get too heavy, you stop. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/46 "2023-10-25T10:30:46Z")
There was talk of unicycles. Not long ago I was sucked into a rabbit hole called electric unicycles. By the time it was over, I was damn near firing off a check for one of the things, and I’m an old man in poor physical health. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/47 "2023-10-25T10:48:28Z")
Because _someone_ has to do it: > [@mbh](#): > > > [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > > > And a unicycle. All the kids in our neighborhood had them - a gang! ha ha > > What are you rebelling against, Johnny? Whaddya got? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/48 "2023-10-25T13:05:17Z")
I had one, but preferred my space hopper. Easier to master, and you could sit on it when not bouncing. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/49 "2023-10-25T16:48:18Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > What are you rebelling against, Johnny? 2 wheelers! ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/50 "2023-12-01T20:43:10Z")
Gravity! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/51 "2023-12-12T18:00:43Z")
I tried someone else’s pogo stick, once, when I was little. I didn’t weigh enough to compress the spring no matter how hard I jumped. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/52 "2023-12-12T18:04:39Z")
[Did you ever or do you now possess a pogo stick?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919) No, Senator. And I’d like to clarify that I’m not now, nor I have ever been a member of the [Comirnaty](https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/comirnaty). ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919/53 "2023-12-13T13:44:33Z")
We(me and my two brothers) had both stilts and a pogo stick as kids. They lasted about a week before being dismantled and the parts cannibalized for use in stick fighting. There were no feats of daring-do or record breaking with them, such as going up or down stairs or long distances. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-or-do-you-now-possess-a-pogo-stick/991919.md?page=2)